This article is about the website. For other uses, see SourceForge (disambiguation).
SourceForge
SourceForge logo since 2018
Type of site
Free hosting for open-source software project management
Owner
Slashdot Media (2019–present)[1] BIZX, LLC (2016–2019)[2] DHI Group, Inc. (2012–2016) Geeknet, Inc. (1999–2012)
Created by
VA Software
Key people
Logan Abbott (President)[3][4]
URL
sourceforge.net
Commercial
Yes
Registration
Optional (required for creating and joining projects)
Launched
November 1999; 24 years ago (1999-11)
Current status
Online
SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features.
SourceForge was one of the first to offer this service free of charge to open-source projects.[5][discuss] Since 2012, the website has run on Apache Allura software. SourceForge offers free hosting and free access to tools for developers of free and open-source software.
As of September 2020[update], the SourceForge repository claimed to host more than 502,000 projects and had more than 3.7 million registered users.[6]
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^"BIZX Subsidiary SourceForge Media, LLC Acquires Slashdot Media". Marketwire. January 28, 2016. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
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^Maguire, James (October 17, 2007). "The SourceForge Story". Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
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